Musika at Ginawa (Music and Comfort): Holistic Health for Music Teachers and Students

Musika at Ginhawa (Music and Comfort): a two-day symposium focusing on the holistic health of tertiary level pre-professional musicians brought to you by the University of the Philippines College of Music and the PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. The first day (Monday, March 17, 2025) was for an audience of music teachers in the UPCMu […]

A night of Dance, Medicine, and Dance Medicine

December 10, 2023 What an awesome multidisciplinary panel discussion on a dancer’s ankle sprain – physiatry, orthopedics and rheumatology specialists at the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine National Capital Region (PARM-NCR) quarterly scientific conference tonight. The case conference discussion ended, and Dance Medicine Philippines was formally introduced to all of us tonight at PARM Mabuhay! […]

Medical Humanities at the Philippine General Hospital, in the time of COVID-19

In April, 2020 a call went out for photos and written pieces chronicling the pandemic experience at the University of the Philippines and Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) – the plan was to collect these for the PGH Human Spirit Project. The pandemic isn’t over yet, but here are the fruits of that labor: a 3-volume […]